Category: Blog

Dude, life sucks. Okay, so, I moved into a new house, right? My parents are separated now. No, I am not sad and please stop telling me I should be sad because I’m happy. I’m more calm and less angry now. Nonetheless, I moved. I have a new bedroom, bathroom, kitchen. It’s my fourteenth house….

I was having a Facebook conversation about minimalism with a fellow TCK who now resides in the US. She asked me what I did with photos, my kids’ school work, and other such items. My response was simple: “Scan Baby Scan!” But this requires more than just a pithy response now, doesn’t it? The Minimalists…

You remember Steve Jobs? Turtleneck, Levi jeans, New Balance tennis shoes? Yes, he made that simple, minimal wardrobe a classic. As a Global Nomad, being a minimalist makes my life a lot easier. I have a very simple, straightforward wardrobe that is easy to pack up and move to my next location. Here is what…

A couple of months ago I was having a conversation with Zenia about the water tragedy in Flint, Michigan. She looked at me and asked me why people didn’t just move out. I told her that it wasn’t that easy. She asked me why. To Third Culture Kids, moving is a very easy task. We…

I just turned 45 two days ago, and you probably have never met me before. I’m not just speaking to the people “out there”, I am also speaking to the almost 1,500 Facebook “friends” I have. That is because if you met me before 2016, you probably don’t know me. Why? Because that guy no…

Oh, it’s absolutely amazing and maybe I’ll write a blog on why it’s so cool. But today is not that day, it is a day of mourning. Let me explain. I knew coming here that no one would stay here, people would come and go. We would come and go. I knew kids in my grade were…

I spent much of my childhood trapped in hotel rooms (most TCKs can relate to this experience). Months at a time, while my father was working on projects in Brazil, Switzerland, or Germany, my mother had the very daunting task of keeping her son (me) occupied in a relatively boring environment. So she did what…

It was December and good cheer was in the air. There in my Inbox was the e-mail with the contracts. We had been hired to teach at an international school in South Korea! Excited, we all went out to celebrate at our favorite restaurant (OK, I’m making this part up because collectively our favorite restaurant…

You’ve been to parties, so you know how this conversation goes. You meet someone. You’re holding a drink, they are holding one as well. Someone has created a playlist of eclectic music which is buzzing in the background, providing ambience and an ambivalent sense of “cool” to the party. They introduce themselves, and you tell…

It was the early in the summer of ’12. I had just accepted a position at the Interlochen Arts Academy in northern Michigan, and was hanging out in the US for a few weeks before traveling to South America. One of those nights, while waiting to fall asleep on my good friends Juanita and Jerome…